1. The Confucian Classics, with special attention to the Book of Odes;
2. Chu poetry and the rapsody (fu);
3. Philosophical literature, with special attention to Zhuangzi;
4. Historiographical literature, with special attention to Shiji;
5. The poetry of seclusion during the Six Dynasties period;
6. The origins of classical fiction (zhiguai and chuanqi);
7. The poetry of the Tang period and the origins of the lyric (ci);
8. The origins of vernacular fiction (Tang and Song);
9. Yuan drama;
10. Classical and vernacular fiction from the Ming and Qing periods.